Chapter Summaries

Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi went to Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun enlisted them to scheme against the Dream World and taught them a cultivation method. Hongjun then presented the Taiji Diagram, leaving them eager to use his support against Dao Venerable Changsheng.

• Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi left Tongtian behind in the Dream World and traveled to Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun questioned why Tongtian was absent and asked Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi what they thought of Dao Venerable Changsheng.
• Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi complained that Dao Venerable Changsheng had seized their resources and argued that the Dream World should not remain under his sect’s control.
• Hongjun said he would leave the Dream World to them to scheme over and taught them the method for reaching Grand Unity perfection.
• Hongjun produced the Supreme Innate Treasure, the Taiji Diagram, and described its powers to Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi.

Hongjun armed Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi with powerful treasures and set them to interfere with the Dream World, while Tongtian rejected their demand to distance himself from the Changsheng Immortal Sect. The Three Pure Ones parted ways after Taiqing declared their brotherhood ended.

• Hongjun gave Taiqing Laozi the Taiji Diagram and two treasures transformed from the Thirty-Six-Ranked Creation Green Lotus, and lent Yuanshi the Pangu Banner and Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud.
• Hongjun told Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi to pursue their plans for the Dream World, promised to oppose Dao Venerable Changsheng if he intervened, and instructed them to enlist Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi returned to Kunlun Mountain, where Taiqing proposed giving Tongtian one last chance to join their plan.
• Yuanshi brought Tongtian back from the Dream World, but Tongtian defended his friendship with Seven Words and refused to cut ties with the Changsheng Immortal Sect.
• Taiqing Laozi declared that the Three Pure Ones would go their separate ways.

Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi split from Tongtian after he refused to distance himself from the Dream World and the Changsheng Immortal Sect. They recruited Jieyin and Zhunti to stir up dissatisfaction against the Changsheng Immortal Sect, beginning their plan in the Dream World's Free Trade Zone.

• Taiqing Laozi asked Tongtian to separate himself from the Dream World and the Changsheng Immortal Sect, but Tongtian refused and agreed to split from his brothers.
• Taiqing Laozi divided the Thirty-Six-Ranked Creation Green Lotus into three treasures, and Tongtian accepted the Qingping Sword before leaving Kunlun Mountain.
• Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi summoned Jieyin and Zhunti, relayed Hongjun's instructions, and enlisted them to plot against the Dream World.
• Taiqing Laozi gave Jieyin the Twelve-Ranked Golden Lotus of Merit and told the pair to channel beings' dissatisfaction with the Changsheng Immortal Sect.
• Jieyin and Zhunti entered the Dream World and went to the Free Trade Zone, where they planned to begin recruiting among its gathered beings.

Jieyin and Zhunti incited beings across the Dream World by claiming the Dao Ancestor supported taking control of its resources and had revealed the quasi-saint cultivation method. After hundreds of millions gathered at the Task Tower and demanded half the Dream World's resources, Enlightenment confronted them.

• Jieyin spread claims that the Changsheng Immortal Sect was monopolizing resources and that the Dao Ancestor wanted the Dream World to serve all beings.
• Jieyin promised the gathered cultivators a method for the realm beyond Great Luo, then revealed that the Slaying the Three Corpses method required an innate object.
• Jieyin urged the beings to seize control of the Dream World and demand more than half its resources, while Zhunti gathered another crowd and led them toward the Treasure Light Pavilion.
• Jieyin brought hundreds of millions of beings to the Task Tower and demanded to see Dao Venerable Changsheng or receive half the Dream World's resources.
• Enlightenment rejected the demand, and Jieyin rallied the crowd to insist that the Changsheng Immortal Sect hand over half the Dream World's control.

Jieyin and Zhunti led opposition to the Changsheng Immortal Sect’s control of the Dream World, while Fuxi defended its voluntary mission system and refused to share management. Jieyin challenged Fuxi to a contest of the Five Elements Sword Formation, and Fuxi agreed to face him in ten thousand years on the Western Continent.

• Jieyin rallied living beings against the Changsheng Immortal Sect, and Zhunti threatened to hunt those who completed Dream World missions.
• Fuxi defended the Dream World’s voluntary transactions and warned that he would use the Five Elements Sword Formation against anyone who obstructed missions.
• Jieyin accused the Changsheng Immortal Sect of monopolizing resources and demanded that the Dream World be jointly managed, with resources divided seventy-thirty.
• Fuxi refused to share control and said the Changsheng Immortal Sect would withdraw from the Dream World rather than surrender it.
• Jieyin challenged Fuxi to a rematch between the Five Elements Sword Formation and his side, proposing that victory would grant them joint management.
• Fuxi accepted and said he would set up the Five Elements Sword Formation on the Western Continent in ten thousand years.

Fuxi agreed to face Jieyin and Zhunti in the Five Elements Sword Formation ten thousand years later while the Changsheng Immortal Sect prepared and the Western pair cultivated. Three thousand years later, Hongjun opened Zixiao Palace for his sermon, where Hong Yun gave up his meditation cushion to Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Fuxi set a ten-thousand-year appointment with Jieyin and Zhunti, then ordered the Direct Disciples to guard the Dream World and cultivate while Kong Xuan agreed to accompany him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to refine their spirit treasures before Hongjun's sermon at Zixiao Palace.
• Great Powers gathered Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, where the Innate Astral Wind killed many who tried to enter; Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Tongtian, and others passed through safely.
• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived at Zixiao Palace and decided to seek the last two meditation cushions, reasoning that their occupants seemed less formidable.
• Jieyin and Zhunti lamented that they had no seats, and Hong Yun stood aside and yielded his cushion to them.

Hongjun delivered his first sermon at Zixiao Palace, bringing the gathered Grand Unity Golden Immortals to the peak of their realm. As the ten-thousand-year appointment with Fuxi drew nearer, the Primordial Continent grew quiet, and the guests returned for Hongjun’s second sermon.

• Hong Yun gave his meditation cushion to Jieyin, who joined Zhunti in forcing Kunpeng to surrender his seat and leaving Kunpeng resentful toward Hong Yun.
• Hongjun began his sermon on the Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti made great gains in cultivation.
• After the three-thousand-year sermon, Hongjun announced that he would explain the Quasi-Saint path in another three thousand years, and the guests departed.
• On Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi anticipated confronting Fuxi after the next sermon, while Taiqing Laozi cautioned him not to underestimate Fuxi.
• At Buzhou Mountain, Nuwa prepared to comprehend the Great Dao of Creation, while the Dream World emptied as its inhabitants cultivated and avoided intervening in the coming conflict.
• Another three thousand years passed, and the three thousand Grand Unity Golden Immortal guests gathered at Zixiao Palace for Hongjun’s second sermon.

Hongjun taught the Quasi-Saint path at Zixiao Palace, appointed East King Duke and West Queen Mother to govern male and female immortals, and arranged a campaign against the Changsheng Immortal Sect. He left Taiqing, Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, Taiyi, and Di Jun to cultivate and prepare for the coming battle.

• Hongjun explained the Three Corpses method and said that cultivating the Great Dao was no longer possible, prompting Jieyin to ask why the Changsheng Immortal Sect could do so.
• Hongjun appointed East King Duke and West Queen Mother as Heads of Male and Female Immortals, giving them spiritual treasures and announcing a sermon on sainthood in three thousand years.
• After most visitors left, Hongjun gave Taiqing, Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Taiyi the method to break the Five Elements Sword Formation and ordered them to cultivate to Early Quasi-Saint.
• Hongjun ordered Di Jun to work with East King Duke to seize the Changsheng Immortal Sect, explaining that its hidden formation was weakening and its location would become clear when Fuxi set up the Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Hongjun gave Di Jun an innate object, and all six began cultivating in seclusion while Hongjun prepared to wait for the coming opportunity.

On the day of the ten-thousand-year pact, Fuxi brought Kong Xuan to Mount Sumeru and trapped Jieyin, Zhunti, Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Taiyi in the Five Elements Sword Formation. Their powerful treasures resisted the formation, so Fuxi poured in his full strength as the five prepared to break out.

• Fuxi entrusted the Changsheng Immortal Sect to Enlightenment before leaving Penglai with Kong Xuan.
• At Mount Sumeru, Fuxi found Jieyin, Zhunti, Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Taiyi waiting, all newly advanced to the Early Quasi-Saint realm.
• Fuxi trapped the five in separate gates of the Five Elements Sword Formation, where endless sword qi attacked them.
• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell, Jieyin the Twelve-Ranked Golden Lotus of Merit, Zhunti the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, Yuanshi a Celebratory Cloud, and Taiqing Laozi the Heaven and Earth Mystic Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to defend themselves.
• Fuxi sensed that Dao Ancestor had supplied the five with powerful treasures, but increased the formation's power severalfold with his full strength.
• Taiqing Laozi ordered the others to break the formation with all their strength.

Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, Taiyi, Jieyin, and Zhunti destroyed Fuxi’s Five Elements Sword Formation and tried to seize its treasures. As Taiqing Laozi threatened Fuxi, Lin Changsheng’s Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler appeared to protect him, leaving the attackers terrified.

• Taiqing Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to break the Earth Sword Gate and lock its space while Yuanshi, Taiyi, Jieyin, and Zhunti struck the other gates with their treasures.
• Their combined attacks destroyed the Five Elements Sword Formation, and the backlash left Fuxi’s primordial spirit weak.
• Zhunti tried to take the Five Elements Sword and Five Elements Sword Diagram, but Fuxi used the Fuxi Qin to strengthen his connection and reclaim them.
• Taiqing Laozi threatened Fuxi with the Taiji Diagram after Fuxi refused to surrender the treasures forged by the Sect Master.
• The Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler appeared above Fuxi and released a killing aura that frightened Taiqing Laozi and the others.

Lin Changsheng’s Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler shattered the defenses of Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Taiyi, while Fuxi prepared to leave with the Five Elements Sword Formation. Yuanshi then used the Pangu Banner empowered by the Dao Ancestor to threaten Fuxi and the Changsheng Immortal Sect, as a crisis struck Penglai Immortal Island.

• Lin Changsheng’s Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler broke through the Chaos Bell, Heaven and Earth Mystic Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, Taiji Diagram, and Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, exhausting its mana after injuring Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Taiyi.
• Jieyin accused Fuxi of breaking his word, but Fuxi rebuked him and turned to leave.
• Yuanshi unleashed the Pangu Banner, whose power revealed the Dao Ancestor’s intervention and threatened everyone beneath the realm of a Heavenly Dao Saint.
• Yuanshi demanded that Fuxi summon Dao Venerable Changsheng, while Fuxi refused and Yuanshi threatened to suppress him and the Changsheng Immortal Sect.
• Fuxi urged Kong Xuan to escape, but Kong Xuan stayed beside him, trusting the sect’s disciples to defend the Changsheng Immortal Sect as Penglai Immortal Island faced a crisis.

East King Duke and Di Jun led millions of cultivators to Penglai Immortal Island after its protective formation failed, intending to seize Changsheng Immortal Sect and its vast resources. Enlightenment rallied the disciples to resist as East King Duke’s forces launched the first attack.

• Penglai Immortal Island’s Innate Grand Formation ran out of energy, exposing the island to East King Duke, Di Jun, and their assembled forces.
• East King Duke claimed command of the operation, while Di Jun recognized that East King Duke had only been used to locate the island.
• Enlightenment rejected retreat and told the disciples to defend Changsheng Immortal Sect, though she feared the attackers would cause heavy losses.
• East King Duke and Di Jun saw the island’s immense stores of spiritual roots, materials, ores, and treasures, and East King Duke claimed them as his own.
• Di Jun demanded that Enlightenment surrender the island, but she refused; East King Duke ordered Zifu Continent’s forces to attack.
• Seven Words stepped forward to confront the attacking forces.

Seven Words nearly destroyed East King Duke’s army with his Immortal Slaying Sword Intent, while Di Jun refused to aid East King Duke and challenged Jin Di and Jin Tai to rejoin the Demon Race. The Demon Race then attacked Changsheng Immortal Sect, but its Direct Disciples proved formidable, and Di Jun became locked in a difficult battle with Enlightenment.

• Seven Words unleashed One Sword Slays Immortals, killing most of the hundreds of thousands of Grand Unity Golden Immortals from Zifu Continent.
• Di Jun refused East King Duke’s demand for help, then blasted him away when he tried to invoke the Dao Ancestor’s command.
• Di Jun offered Jin Di and Jin Tai a chance to return to the Demon Race, but Jin Di rejected him and defended Changsheng Immortal Sect.
• Di Jun ordered millions of Demon Race members to attack, and Enlightenment annihilated hundreds of thousands with the Art of Sun, Moon, and Stars Fall.
• Di Jun fought Enlightenment but could not gain an advantage, while the other Demon Gods struggled against Changsheng Immortal Sect’s Direct Disciples.

Di Jun’s Demon Race forces nearly overwhelmed the Changsheng Immortal Sect’s disciples, but the Golden Lotus of Destiny replenished their mana and turned the battle around. Di Jun then withdrew his troops and formed the Grand Formation of the Stars, leaving the disciples facing the Demon Race’s trump card.

• Di Jun’s Demon Race cultivators wore down the Changsheng Immortal Sect’s disciples with their overwhelming numbers, while Enlightenment was kept occupied.
• The Golden Lotus of Destiny replenished the disciples’ mana, letting them regain their strength and pressure the Demon Race.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to fall back, and Enlightenment gathered the disciples and warned them to prepare to retreat to Yingzhou Immortal Island if necessary.
• East King Duke and the Grand Unity Golden Immortal experts blamed Di Jun for their losses and vowed to complain about him to the Dao Ancestor.
• Di Jun summoned the Zhou Tian Star Banners and had the Demon Race’s Great Powers form the Grand Formation of the Stars.

Di Jun’s Demon Race trapped the Changsheng Immortal Sect’s disciples in the Grand Formation of the Stars, but Pan Shi arrived with the Twelve Ancestral Witches. Their Twelve Divine Generals Formation summoned Pangu’s True Body to strike at the formation, while Yuanshi’s attack on Fuxi continued elsewhere.

• Di Jun activated the Grand Formation of the Stars, leaving Enlightenment and the disciples with no way to escape and prompting her to order the Direct Disciples to prepare to sacrifice their treasures.
• Pan Shi arrived with Dijiang and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, revealing that Enlightenment had sent him to seek their help.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Twelve Divine Generals Formation and summoned Pangu’s True Body, whose power surpassed the Grand Formation of the Stars.
• Pangu’s True Body swung the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe at the Grand Formation of the Stars as Fuxi laughed at the failure of Taiqing and Yuanshi’s scheme.
• Yuanshi told Fuxi to worry about himself and sent the Pangu Banner blasting toward him.

Fuxi and Yuanshi’s forces clashed through the Primordial Chaos Sword and Pangu Banner, while the Twelve Divine Generals Formation broke Di Jun’s Grand Formation of the Stars. Dao Ancestor Hongjun then intervened, erasing the witch formation and freezing the Changsheng Immortal Sect disciples and ancestral witches in place.

• Kong Xuan summoned the Primordial Chaos Sword, which clashed with the Pangu Banner and extinguished its light.
• Fuxi taunted Yuanshi after the Primordial Chaos Sword overcame the Pangu Banner.
• Dijiang struck with the Pangu True Body, shattering Di Jun’s Grand Formation of the Stars and crushing many Demon Race cultivators.
• Di Jun called for Dao Ancestor to save him as the remaining power of the axe threatened to kill him.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared, erased the Twelve Divine Generals Formation, and froze the Changsheng Immortal Sect disciples and ancestral witches.

The Dao Ancestor intervened to save Di Jun and restrain the Changsheng Immortal Sect, but Lin Changsheng emerged from seclusion as the sect’s Golden Lotus of Destiny blossomed to Twenty-four Grades. After restoring Fuxi and Kong Xuan, Lin Changsheng confronted Taiqing Laozi and the others at Mount Sumeru.

• The Dao Ancestor shattered the Twelve Divine Generals Formation, restrained the Changsheng Immortal Sect disciples, and saved Di Jun from certain death.
• The Golden Lotus of Destiny on Penglai Immortal Island blossomed from Twelve Grades to Twenty-four Grades, releasing the disciples from their restraints as Lin Changsheng prepared to emerge.
• Di Jun fled toward the Eastern Continent, killed East King Duke when he blamed him for the defeat, and continued escaping.
• Lin Changsheng emerged from seclusion and told his disciples that only the final Thunder Tribulation remained before he would carve out a safe place in the chaos.
• Lin Changsheng appeared at Mount Sumeru, healed Fuxi and returned him and Kong Xuan to Penglai Immortal Island, then confronted Taiqing Laozi and the others.

Lin Changsheng defeated Hongjun's Mana True Body, seized the Pangu Banner, and took the Taiji Diagram and Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud from Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi. He planned to claim Taiyi's Chaos Bell after the Witch-Demon Tribulation, then turned his attention to someone who had tried to escape.

• Hongjun's Mana True Body shielded Taiqing Laozi and the others and challenged Lin Changsheng to attack them before passing his Thunder Tribulation.
• Lin Changsheng fought Hongjun's Mana True Body with a void millstone and overpowered it, suppressing and taking the Pangu Banner.
• Lin Changsheng injured Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and the other three, then claimed the Taiji Diagram and Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud as repayment for their debts.
• Hongjun's Mana True Body warned Lin Changsheng about their karma and left to heal Taiqing Laozi and the others.
• Lin Changsheng planned to take Taiyi's Chaos Bell after the Witch-Demon Tribulation, then confronted someone who had tried to escape.

After defeating Hongjun’s plans and stripping Di Jun of the River Diagram and Luo Book, Lin Changsheng went to the Depths of Chaos to prepare for his Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal Lightning Tribulation. As the tribulation began to shake the Primordial Wilderness, Hongjun treated the injured Taiqing, Laozi, and the others while the Heavenly Dao’s laws grew unstable.

• Lin Changsheng forcibly took the River Diagram and Luo Book from Di Jun, severing Di Jun’s connection to them and leaving him unconscious.
• Lin Changsheng took the Primordial Chaos Sword and traveled beyond the Earth Membrane into the Depths of Chaos.
• Lin Changsheng made a safe area and brought the divine senses of the Changsheng Immortal Sect’s disciples, the Witch Race, and Nuwa to watch his tribulation.
• Lin Changsheng released his aura, causing chaos to tremble and tribulation clouds to cover the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hongjun sensed Lin Changsheng’s tribulation and used some of his origin to treat Taiqing, Laozi, and the other injured figures in Zixiao Palace.
• The aura of Lin Changsheng’s tribulation destabilized the Heavenly Dao’s laws and prevented living beings across the Primordial Wilderness from cultivating.

Lin Changsheng completed his Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal tribulation, elevating his body, primordial spirit, and Primordial Chaos Sword. After the Great Dao rewarded him with thirty Great Dao Seeds, he returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island and unlocked his eighth talent, Lord of the World.

• Lin Changsheng used the Primordial Grand Luo Lightning Tribulation to temper his physical body and primordial spirit while the Primordial Chaos Sword absorbed its Dao Rhythm.
• Fuxi warned Houtu and the Ancestral Witches that Dao Ancestor Hongjun might have noticed clues about the Twelve Divine Generals Formation.
• Lin Changsheng absorbed the final bolt and stabilized at the first level of the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, with both his body and primordial spirit reaching that level.
• Fuxi, Dijiang, and Nuwa sensed Lin Changsheng's overwhelming strength as the Great Dao noticed his breakthrough.
• The Great Dao bestowed thirty Great Dao Seeds on Lin Changsheng, and he absorbed them to stabilize his cultivation further.
• Lin Changsheng returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island and unlocked his eighth talent, Lord of the World.